What’s in Fashion Photography Archive

Experience the evolution of today’s most iconic designers. Curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York, this resource showcases more than 750,000 newly-digitized and high-quality images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history along with a timeline, lesson plans, and videos to create a rich educational resource.

Images

With more than 750,000* high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images, the Fashion Photography Archive advances knowledge of recent fashion history and gives inspiration for fashion design students.

*500,000 images are currently available. Further collections will be added in updates of 100,000 images from Autumn 2017 until 750,000 images are live.

Articles

More than 100 biographies are available for all Bloomsbury Fashion Central users and provide the perfect starting point for any fashion topic.

Fashion Articles The last 30 years of fashion history are diverse and fascinating. These articles cover a range of topics, and they give detailed overviews of the fashion cities, catwalk shows, textiles, and beyond.

Videos

Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele interviews Niall McInerney, the photographer of the Fashion Photography Archive, in a series of short videos which cover a range of different topics.

Niall McInerny's career in fashion photography crossed four decades. The giant selection of images in the Fashion Photography Archive reflects the variety of shows, designers, supermodels, and celebrities that he captured during this time.